The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-05-24

PUBLIC opinion, or at least adequate
expression of public opinion, is slowly
reused here in this tropical paradise,
as passing travellers call this King
dom.
We have striven in the GAZETTE for
years past to prevent abuses of gov
eminent and SO to avoid scandal. 1t
is no use. Wrong rides triumphant.
Bribery, pecculation, malversation is
the rule, not the exception, from the
provincial polling booth to the cen
trail public Office.
1t is now several years since people
began to enquire why such man as
the present Grand Yizier should have
been made Minister of all departments
President of all Boards The an
swer has come. It is that the
whole revenue of the Kingdom, below
the Supreme Bench, be made cor
ruption fund and used as such for the
pecuniary benefit of those who may
get share in it. Not that there are not
even yet honorable exceptions among
the dishonorable crowd.
Take the list of so-called Ministers
of Finance from Kuaea the preacher,
to the present-which of them has
been even respectfully competent?
The various and many offices held
by Kapena-for which was he fit?
The Ministers of Interior save VIII
der-where has been an able man,
down to the last and lowest.
Why this wasteful extravaganza,
shedding the taxpayers money from
Washington to Westminster and even
to Ocean Island and Samoa?'
+ Why does the Road Supervisor
patch up, and roll down a street that
the Water Supervisor may pick it up
three days afterwards?
Why are mutinies in ''the Navy"
summarily passed over, by mere dis
missal, contrary to law, of the mutt
neers, the very object which they
sought for?
Why are we saddled with the Ma
dras debt and It's disreputable details?
These questions might be multiplied,
indeed have been and are multiplied
dd- nduseun. One answer only-be-
cause this Kingdom, its revenues, its
possibilities and its former fair fame
have been handed over to the tender
mercies of a set, or series of sets, al
WAYS however. with the same chief, of
the most INSCRIPTIONS adventurers,-
incompetent as officials, merely pocket
filling as individuals-that ever ex
listed.
The chief, mere renegade of as
many nationalities as religious pro-
fesions, his henchmen, greedy for
themselves so long as subservient to
him, the understrappers corrupt and
incapable, or, insecure!
The streets and roads of this city
and its suburbs would disgrace Pa
mama. We have a Road Supervisor
whose grandfather was possibly re
spectacle hydraulic engineer, mas
much as he could construct taro-
patch and regulate the inflow and
outflow of water, while to-day within
mile of the Kings Palace, we have
roads, the approaches to our principal
schools, actually causeways several
feet higher than the grounds on either
side of them, yet so RECONSTRUCTED, or
ill-kept, that they cannot shed drop
of rain water, and are turned into al
most impossible mud by every shower.
The first attempt at man-ofwar.
after filing the police reports with
larcenies, assertions, mutinies, is hus
tied off to sea without any probability
of discipline, unless it be enforced by
heaviest fist or the readiest handspike
on board This greatest scandal sex
cept the opium bride" has yet to bear
its fruit.
The financial position of the coun-
try has yet to be explored and made
known, by trustworthy, 1. c. non gov
eminent mem
And who is responsible for this state
of affairs and for the machinery which
rendered it possible. Foreign Offices
in different parts of the world are en-
curing the answer is, the King.